CALO Published Research

CALO research papers are one of the best ways to share current breakthroughs and up-to-date information with the CALO community. To date, more than 200 research papers have been written with the help of CALO funding. The following is a selection.

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A* Based Joint Segmentation and Classification of Dialog Acts in Multiparty Meetings, Matthias Zimmermann, Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, and Andreas Stolcke. Proceedings of the IEEE Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Cancun, 2005.

Active Preference Learning for Personalized Calendar Scheduling Assistance, Melinda T. Gervasio, Michael D. Moffitt, Martha E. Pollack, Joseph M. Taylor, and Tomas E. Uribe. Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2005.

Activity recognition and abnormality detection with the switching hidden semi-Markov model, T. Duong, H. Bui, D. Phung, and S. Vekatesh. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2005.

Adjustable Autonomy Challenges in Personal Assistant Agents: A Position Paper, R. Maheswaran, M. Tambe, P. Varakantham, and K. Myers. The First International Workshop on Computational Autonomy - Potential, Risks, Solutions (Autonomy 2003), 2003.

Analysis of Overlaps in Meetings by Dialog Factors, Hot Spots, Speakers, and Collection Site: Insights for Automatic Speech Recognition, Ozgur Cetin and Elizabeth Shriberg (2006). Proceedings of ICSLP, pp. 293-296, Pittsburgh.

Analysis of Privacy Loss in Distributed Constraint Optimization, Rachel Greenstadt, Jonathan P. Pearce and Milind Tambe. Copyright 2006, American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Asimovian Multiagents: Applying Laws of Robotics to Teams of Humans and Agents, Nathan Schurr, Pradeep Varakantham, Emma Bowring, Milind Tambe, and Barbara Grosz.

Balancing Formal and Practical Concerns in Agent Design, David Morley and Karen Myers. Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software Engineering and Cognitive Systems, 2004.

Bibliometric Impact Measures Leveraging Topic Analysis, Gideon S. Mann, David Mimno, and Andrew McCallum. JCDL’06, June 11–15, 2006, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Building an Intelligent Personal Assistant, Karen Myers. AAAI Invited Talk, July 2006.

Can Modeling Redundancy In Multimodal, Multi-party Tasks Support Dynamic Learning? Edward C. Kaiser. CHI 2005 Workshop: CHI Virtuality 2005, Portland, OR., USA, April 3, 2005.

A Case Study in Engineering a Knowledge Base for an Intelligent Personal Assistant, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Adam Cheyer, Richard Guili, Bill Jarrold, Karen Myers, and John Niekarasz. Technical Report. SRI International, 2006.

A Cognitive Framework for Delegation to an Assistive User Agent, K. Myers and N. Yorke-Smith. Proceedings of AAAI 2005 Fall Symposium on Mixed-Initiative Problem Solving Assistants, Arlington, VA, November 2005.

Collaborative Multimodal Photo Annotation over Digital Paper, Paulo Barthelmess, Edward Kaiser, Xiao Huang, David McGee, and Philip Cohen. ICMI’06, November 2–4, 2006; Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Collective Multi-Label Classification, Nadia Ghamrawi and Andrew McCallum. CIKM’05, Bremen, Germany.

Combining User Modeling and Machine Learning to Predict Users’ Multimodal Integration Patterns, Xiao Huang, Sharon Oviatt, and Rebecca Lunsford. Technical paper by Natural Interaction Systems and Center for Human-Computer Communication.

Composition of Conditional Random Fields for Transfer Learning, Charles Sutton and Andrew McCallum. Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP, 2005.

Conflict Negotiation Among Personal Calendar Agents, Pauline M. Berry, Cory Albright, Emma Bowring, Ken Conley, Kenneth Nitz, Jonathan P. Pearce, Bart Peintner, Shahin Saadati, Milind Tambe, Tomás Uribe, and Neil Yorke-Smith. Proceedings AAMAS’06, May 8-12, 2006, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan.

Continuous Refinement of Resource Estimates, D. N. Morley, K. L. Myers,and N. Yorke-Smith. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS’06), Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.

A Demonstration of Distributed Pointing and Referencing for Multimodal Collaboration Over Sketched Diagrams, Edward C. Kaiser, P. Barthelmess, X. Huang and D. Demirdjian. Workshop Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2005), Workshop on Multimodal, Multiparty Meeting Processing, Oct. 7, 2005, Trento, Italy.

Demo: Collaborative Multimodal Photo Annotation over DigitalPaper, Paulo Barthelmess, Edward Kaiser, Xiao Huang, David McGee, and Philip Cohen. ICMI’06, November 2–4, 2006; Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Demo: A Multimodal Learning Interface for Sketch, Speak and Point Creation of a Schedule Chart, Ed Kaiser, David Demirdjian, Alexander Gruenstein, Xiaoguang Li, John Niekrasz, Matt Wesson, and Sanjeev Kumar. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2004), State College, Pennsylvania, USA, October 14-15, 2004, pgs. 329-330.

Deploying a Personalized Time Management Agent, P. Berry, K. Conley, M. Gervasio, B. Peintner, T. Uribe, and N. Yorke-Smith. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS’06) Industrial Track, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.

Design and Implementation of the CALO Query Manager, Jose-Luis Ambite, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Richard Fikes, Jessica Jenkins, Sunil Mishra, Maria Muslea, Tomas Uribe, Guizhen Yang. Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, July 2006.

Dialogue Structure and Pronoun Resolution, J. Tetreault, and J. Allen.

Disjunctive Temporal Planning with Uncertainty, K.B. Venable and N. Yorke-Smith. Proceedings of IJCAI'05, Edinburgh, UK, August 2005.

Distributed Pointing for Multimodal Collaboration over Sketched Diagrams, Paulo Barthelmess, Ed Kaiser, Xiao Huang, David Demirdjian. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '05), Trento, Italy, October 4-6, 2005, pgs. 10-17.

Dynamic New Vocabulary Enrollment through Handwriting and Speech in a Multimodal Scheduling Application, Edward C. Kaiser. Making Pen-Based Interaction Intelligent and Natural, Papers from the 2004 AAAI Symposium, Technical Report FS-04-06, Arlington, VA., USA, October 21-24, 2004, pgs. 85-91.

Efficiently Ordering Subgoals with Access Constraints, Guizhen Yang, Michael Kifer, and Vinay K. Chaudhri. ACM International Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), June 2006.

Electric Elves: What Went Wrong and Why, Milind Tambe, Emma Bowring, Jonathan P. Pearce, Pradeep Varakantham, Paul Scerri, and David V. Pynadath. Copyright 2005, American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Enriching Speech Recognition with Automatic Detection of Sentence Boundaries and Disfluencies, Y. Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, D. Hillard, M. Ostendorf, and M. Harper (2006). IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 14(5), 1526-1540.

Experimental analysis of privacy loss in DCOP algorithms, Rachel Greenstadt, Jonathan P. Pearce, Emma Bowring, and Milind Tambe. AAMAS’06 May 8–12 2006, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan.

Exploiting Secondary Sources for Unsupervised Record Linkage, Martin Michalowski, Snehal Thakkar, and Craig A. Knoblock. Proceedings of the 2004 VLDB Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, 2004.

Extracting Knowledge about Users' Activities from Raw Workstation Contents, T. Mitchell, S. Wang, Y. Huang, and A. Cheyer. The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI ’06), July 2006.

Fewer Clicks and Less Frustration: Reducing the Cost of Reaching the Right Folder, X. Bao, J.Herlocker, and T. Dietterich. 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 178-185. Sydney, Australia.

Group and Topic Discovery from Relations and Text, Xuerui Wang, Natasha Mohanty, and Andrew McCallum. LinkKDD2005 August 21, 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models with General State Hierarchy, H. Bui, D. Phung, and S. Venkatesh. Proceedings of AAAI, 2004.

Human-Centered Collaborative Interaction. Paulo Barthelmess, Edward Kaiser, Rebecca Lunsford, David McGee, Philip Cohen,and Sharon Oviatt. HCM’06, October 27, 2006; Santa Barbara, California.

A Hybrid Learning System for Recognizing User Tasks from Desktop Activities and Email Messages, J. Shen, L. Li, T. Dietterich, and J. Herlocker. 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 86-92. Sydney, Australia.

The ICSI+ Multi-Lingual Sentence Segmentation System, M. Zimmermann, D. Tur, J. Fung, N. Mirghafori, L. Gottlieb, E. Shriberg, and Y. Liu (2006). Proceedings of ICSLP, pp. 117-120, Pittsburgh.

Implementation Techniques for Solving POMDPs in Personal Assistant Domains, Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv Maheswaran, and Milind Tambe.

Incremental Parsing with Reference Interaction, S. Stoness, J. Tetreault, and J. Allen.

Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources in the CALO Query Manager, Jose-Luis Ambite1, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Richard Fikes, Jessica Jenkins, Sunil Mishra, Maria Muslea, Tomas Uribe, and Guizhen Yang. SRI Technical Report, August 2005.

An Introduction to Conditional Random Fields for Relational Learning, Charles Sutton and Andrew McCallum.

IRIS: Integrate. Relate. Infer. Share. Adam Cheyer, Jack Park, and Richard Giuli. Workshop on The Semantic Desktop - Next Generation Personal Information Management and Collaboration Infrastructure at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2005). 6 November 2005, Galway, Ireland.

Introduction to SPARK, D. Morley.

Joint Deduplication of Multiple Record Types in Relational Data, Aron Culotta and Andrew McCallum. CIKM’05, Bremen, Germany.

Learning and detecting activities from movement trajectories using the hierarchical hidden Markov model, N. Nguyen, D. Phung, S. Venkatesh, and H. Bui. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2005.

Managing Extrinsic Costs via Multimodal Natural Interaction Systems, Rebecca Lunsford, Ed Kaiser, Paulo Barthelmess, and Xiao Huang. CHI 2006, April 22–28, 2006, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Mixed-Initiative Issues for a Personalized Time Management Assistant, P. Berry, M. Gervasio, T. Uribe, and N. Yorke-Smith. Proceedings of ICAPS’05 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Planning and Scheduling, Monterey, CA, pp. 12-17, Jun 2005. 

More Than Words Can Say: Using Prosody to Find Sentence Boundaries in Speech, Y. Liu and E. Shriberg (2006). 4th ASA/ASJ Joint Meeting Lay Language Papers. Popular version of paper IaSC2, 4th ASA/ASJ Joint Meeting, Honolulu, HI.

Multi-Conditional Learning: Generative/Discriminative Training for Clustering and Classification, Andrew McCallum, Chris Pal, Greg Druck, and Xuerui Wang. AAAI, 2006.

Multi-Criteria Evaluation in User-Centric Distributed Scheduling Agents, P.M. Berry, M. Gervasio, B. Peintner, T. Uribe, and N. Yorke-Smith. AAAI Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management, Mar 2006.

Multimodal New Vocabulary Recognition through Speech and Handwriting in a Whiteboard Scheduling Application, Edward C. Kaiser. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, San Diego, CA., January 9-12, 2005, pgs. 51-58.

Multimodal Play Back of Collaborative Multiparty Corpora, Edward C. Kaiser, P. Barthelmess, Alexander Arthur. Workshop Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2005), Oct. 7, 2005, Trento, Italy.

Multiply-Constrained Distributed Constraint Optimization, E. Bowring, M. Tambe, and M. Yokoo. AAMAS’06 May 8–12 2006, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan.

Multiply-Constrained DCOP for Distributed Planning and Scheduling, E. Bowring, M. Tambe, and M. Yokoo. Copyright 2006, American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Mutual Disambiguation of 3D Multimodal Interaction in Augmented and Virtual Reality, Ed Kaiser, Alex Olwal, David McGee, Hrvoje Benko, Andrea Corradini, Xiaoguang Li, Phil Cohen, and Steven Feiner. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2003), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, November 2003, pgs. 12-19.

Online Query Relaxation via Bayesian Causal Structures Discovery, Ion Muslea and Thomas J. Lee. Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2005.

On Speaker-Specific Prosodic Models for Automatic Dialog Act Segmentation of Multi-Party Meetings, J. Kolar, E. Shriberg, Y. Liu (2006). Proceeding of ICSLP, pp. 2014-2017, Pittsburgh.

Overlap in Meetings: ASR Effects and Analysis by Dialog Factors, Speakers, and Collection Site, Ozgur Cetin and Elizabeth Shriberg. Proceedings of MLMI06 (3rd Joint Workshop on Multimodal and Related Machine Learning Algorithms), Washington DC.

A Personalized Calendar Assistant, Pauline M. Berry, Melinda Gervasio, Tomas Uribe, Karen Myers, and Ken Nitz. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University, March 2004.

A Personalized Time Management Assistant, Pauline M. Berry, Melinda Gervasio, Tomas Uribe, Martha Pollack, and Michael Moffitt. Proceedings of the AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium Series, Stanford, CA, March 2005.

Populating the Semantic Web, Kristina Lerman, Cenk Gazen, Steven Minton, and Craig A. Knoblock. Proceedings of the AAAI 2004 Workshop on Advances in Text Extraction and Mining, 2004.

A Portable Process Language, Peter E. Clark, David Morley, Vinay K. Chaudhri, and Karen L. Myers. In Workshop on the Role of Ontologies in Planning and Scheduling, Monterey, CA; June 7, 2005.

A Probabilistic Model of Redundancy in Information Extraction, D. Downey, O. Etzioni, and S. Soderland.

Proceedings of the ISWC 2005 Workshop on The Semantic Desktop - Next Generation Information Management & Collaboration Infrastructure, Galway, Ireland, November 6, 2005, CEUR-WS.org, vol. 175, November 2005. Stefan Decker, Jack Park, Dennis Quan, Leo Sauermann (ed.)

Quality Guarantees on Locally Optimal Solutions for Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems, Jonathan P. Pearce and Milind Tambe.

Quiet Interfaces That Help Students Think, Sharon Oviatt, Alex Arthur, and Julia Cohen.

Recovery from Interruptions: Knowledge Workers? Strategies, Failures and Envisioned Solutions, Simone Stumpf, Margaret Burnett, Thomas G. Dietterich, Kevin Johnsrude, Jonathan Herlocker, and Vidya Rajaram.
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Retrieving and Semantically Integrating Heterogeneous Data from the Web, Martin Michalowski, José Luis Ambite, Snehal Thakkar, Rattapoom Tuchinda, Craig A. Knoblock, and Steve Minton. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 19(3), 2004.

Semantics, Dialogue, and Pronoun Resolution, J. Tetreault and J. Allen.

Semi-Supervised Text Classification Using EM, Kamal Nigam, Andrew McCallum, and Tom M. Mitchell.

SHACER: a Speech and Handwriting Recognizer, Edward C. Kaiser. Workshop Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2005), Workshop on Multimodal, Multiparty Meeting Processing, Oct. 7, 2005, Trento, Italy.

Skeletons in the Parser: Using Shallow Parsing to Improve Deep Parsing, M. Swift, J. Allen, and D. Gildea.

Solution Sets in DCOPs and Graphical Games, Jonathan P. Pearce, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, and Milind Tambe. AAMAS’06 May 8–12 2006, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan.

The SPARK Agent Framework, David Morley and, Karen Myers. Proceedings of the Third Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-04), New York, NY, pp. 712-719, July 2004.

Speaker Overlaps and ASR Errors in Meetings: Effects Before, During, and After the Overlap, Ozgur Cetin and Elizabeth Shriberg. Proceedings of the IEEE ICASSP, Toulouse, 2006

Task Management under Change and Uncertainty: Constraint Solving Experience with the CALO Project, P. Berry, K. Myers, T. Uribe, and N. Yorke-Smith. Proceedings of CP'05 Workshop on Constraint Solving under Change and Uncertainty, Sitges, Spain, October 2005.

Temporal Planning with Preferences and Probabilities, R. Morris, P. Morris, Khatib, L. and N. Yorke-Smith. Proceedings of ICAPS'05 Workshop on Constraint Programming for Planning and Scheduling, Monterey, CA, June 2005.

To Transfer or Not to Transfer, M. T. Rosenstein, Z. Marx, L. P. Kaelbling, and T. G. Dietterich. NIPS 2005 Workshop on Transfer Learning, Whistler,BC.

Toward Adaptive Information Fusion in Multimodal Systems, Xiao Huang and Sharon Oviatt. Technical paper, Center for Human-Computer Communication.

Transfer Learning with an Ensemble of Background Tasks, Z. Marx, M. T. Rosenstein, L. P. Kaelbling, and T. G. Dietterich. NIPS 2005 Workshop on Transfer Learning, Whistler, BC.

Using Prosody for Automatic Sentence Segmentation of Multi-Party Meetings, J. Kolar, E. Shriberg, and Y. Liu (2006). Proceedings of International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD), Czech Republic.